Winds gusting to over 70 miles an hour blasted southern and western areas of the Golden Belt early Sunday morning, those areas seeing beneficial rainfall over the weekend.
Hardest hit was Hodgeman County where three limbs and power poles were downed, with a couple of trees falling onto houses in the Jetmore and Hanston areas according to the National Weather Service in Dodge City, which also reported a K-State Mesonet site just north Jetmore recorded an 88 mile an hour wind gust.
The Hodgeman County Sheriff’s Office also reported several sheds were destroyed in the storm, with an irrigation system blown over and damage to portable traffic signals at a road construction site, and one semi was blown over.
The weekend storms brought beneficial rainfall to particularly the southern parts of the Golden Belt, with over four inches reported near Macksville as of Sunday morning, with around 3 ½ inches in the Kinsley and Stafford areas, and just over 2 ½ inches near Ellinwood.
Northern areas of the belt saw lesser rainfall amounts, with much of Rice County receiving less than a half inch of rain from Friday evening through Sunday morning according to National Weather Service precipitation maps, with higher amounts indicated around Little River.
